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English

Alternative forms

• groop (non-standard)
• groupe (obsolete)

Etymology

From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”), from Vulgar Latin *cruppo, Renaissance Latin grupus, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, round mass, body, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to crumple, bend, crawl”). Cognate with German Kropf (“crop, craw, bunch”), Old English cropp, croppa (“cluster, bunch, sprout, flower, berry, ear of corn, crop”), Dutch krop (“craw”), Icelandic kroppr (“hump, bunch”). Doublet of crop and croup.

Pronunciation

• enPR: gro?op, IPA^(key): /??u?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p

Noun

group (plural groups)

1. A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

2. (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
   • 1977, Roger C. Lyndon, Paul E. Schupp, Combinatorial Group Theory, Springer, page 192,

     Throughout this section, we shall assume the existence of finitely presented groups with unsolvable word problem.

   • 1992, Svetlana Katok, Fuchsian Groups, University of Chicago Press, page 112,

     In this chapter we give some examples of Fuchsian groups. The most interesting and important ones are the so-called "arithmetic" Fuchsian groups, i.e., discrete subgroups of PSL(2,R) obtained by some "arithmetic" operations. One such construction we have already seen: if we choose all matrices of SL(2,R) with integer coefficients, then the corresponding elements of PSL(2,R) form the modular group PSL(2,Z).

   • 2007, Zhong-Qi Ma, Group Theory for Physicists, World Scientific, page 277,

     In Chap. 4 the fundamental concepts on Lie groups have been introduced through the SO(3) group and its covering group SU(2).

3. (geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.
4. A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.

5. (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
6. (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
7. (chemistry) A functional group.

8. (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
9. (military) An air force formation.
10. (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
11. (computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
12. An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
13. (music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
14. (sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
15. (business) A commercial organization.

Synonyms

• (number of things or persons being in some relation to each other): collection, set
• (people who perform music together): band, ensemble
• See also Thesaurus:group

Hypernyms

• (in group theory): monoid

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• subgroup

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Gulf Arabic: ?????
• ? Japanese: ???? (gur?pu)
• ? Korean: ?? (geurup)
• ? Tongan: kulupu

Translations

References

• group on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

group (third-person singular simple present groups, present participle grouping, simple past and past participle grouped)

1. (transitive) To put together to form a group.

   group the dogs by hair colour

2. (intransitive) To come together to form a group.

Synonyms

• (put together to form a group): amass, categorise/categorize, classify, collect, collect up, gather, gather together, gather up; see also Thesaurus:round up
• (come together to form a group): assemble, begather, foregather, throng; see also Thesaurus:assemble

Translations

Further reading

• group in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• group in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Latin pl?bs (“the plebeian class”), variant of earlier pl?b?s. Later also understood as the plural of pleb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?bz/

Noun

plebs

1. plural of pleb in its various senses.

Noun

plebs pl (plural only)

1. (historical) The plebeian class of Ancient Rome.

   Synonym: plebeiate

   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, act IV, scene iv, line 92:

     Why I am going with my pidgeons to the tribunall Plebs.

2. The common people, especially (derogatory) the mob.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:commonalty

   • a. 1657, George Daniel, "The Author" in Poems, Vol. II, p. 131:

     For 'tis an Easier Thing
     To make Trees Leape, and Stones selfe-burthens bring
     (As once Amphion to the walls of Thæbes,)
     Then Stop the giddie Clamouring of Plebs...

   • 1993, Max Cavalera, "Refuse/Resist", Sepultura, Chaos A.D.

     Chaos A.D. / Tanks On The Streets / Confronting Police / Bleeding The Plebs

Usage notes

Although the Latin plebs was usually declined as a singular group noun, English plebs is usually treated as grammatically plural in all its senses.

Related terms

• plebeian, plebe, pleb

Derived terms

• plebiscite

Translations

References

• “plebs, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2006

Czech

Noun

plebs m

1. plebs, commoners

Related terms

• plebej
• plebejec

Further reading

• plebs in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• plebs in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?bs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?ps/
• Hyphenation: plebs

Noun

plebs n (uncountable)

1. (derogatory) plebs, rabble, riffraff

   Synonyms: gepeupel, gespuis, grauw, tuig van de richel

2. (historical) plebs, commoners (non-aristocratic class in ancient Rome, esp. during the Roman Republic)

Related terms

• plebejer
• plebejisch
• plebisciet

Latin

Alternative forms

• pl?b?s, pl?bis (archaic)

Etymology

From Old Latin pl?b?s, from Proto-Italic *pl?ðw?s (whence Oscan ???????????????????????????????? (plífriks, “plebeian”, nom. sg.) via *pl?ðros), from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?d?w?h?s ~ *pl?h?d?uh?és (whence Ancient Greek ??????? (pl?th??s, “crowd”)) from *pleh?- (“fill”), whence ple?. See also populus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ple?bs/, [p??e?ps?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pleps/, [pl?ps]

Noun

pl?bs f (genitive pl?bis); third declension

1. (countable and uncountable) plebeians, common people

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem or imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

The non-i-stem variant is found in Medieval Latin.

Derived terms

• pl?b?cula/ pl?bicula
• pl?b?ius
• pl?bicola
• pl?bisc?tum
• pl?bit?s
• concilium pl?bis
• trib?nus pl?bis

Descendants

References

• plebs in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• plebs in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• plebs in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• plebs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• plebs in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers